Quotes About Contradictory

Jesus Christ in a miniskirt.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

You say love is overrated, I say it's complicated.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

La bellezza è raramente dolce o consolatoria. Quasi l'opposto. La vera bellezza è sempre un po' inquietante.

Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Im not miserable but I'm not happy. I'm not strong but I'm not weak. I'm not rude but I'm not polite. I'm not popular but I'm not a loner. I'm not sexy but I'm not horrid. I'm not dumb but I'm no genius. I'm not you but I am me. Accept it.

She had displayed a particular softness for religion, so he had tried to introduce her to the ideas, sometimes foreign, sometimes contradictory, that formed the essence of other faiths, to show her that these were all man-made inventions, and one could not be preferred over the other.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

The eyes of love is myopic yet vigilant, shocking yet relaxing, persuasive but worth it. Foolish but never a wrong decider.

It wasn't playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

Whether people liked or loathed him, he [Octavian] was in many ways a puzzling and contradictory revolutionary. He was once of the most radical innovators Rome ever saw.

The fear, too, is a fear of yourself: a completely dualistic and contradictory fear. On the one hand, it is the fear that you do not have what it takes to make it, and on the other hand, a possibly greater fear that you do have what it takes, and that by definition you therefore also have a responsibility to do something really big.

Freudians argue that the psychological structure is the cause of civilization. Malinowski replaces a psychological causality with a sociological causality and takes the Oedipus complex as a product of civilization. But it is evident that the one thesis and the other are both inseparable and contradictory. We must construct a psychoanalysis and a sociology...which overtakes and synthesizes classical givens.

Psychoanalysis: either the last conquest of scientific and techinitionist ontology or the rediscovery of another contact with being: being that is neither for itself, nor being object, but the contradictory being of human desire.